Born on this day – Johnnie Bassett:

Johnnie Bassett

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

October 9, 1935 – August 4, 2012

Credits:

Albums:

Bassett Hound (1997); Cadillac Blues (1998); I Can Make That Happen (2012); I Gave My Life to the Blues (1997); Live at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival (1994); Party My Blues Away (1999); The Gentleman Is Back (2009).

Born on this day – Little Hat Jones:

Little Hat Jones

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 5, 1899 – March 7, 1981

Credits:

Songs:

Awful Moaning Blues, Pt. 1; Awful Moaning Blues, Pt. 2; Boe Hog Blues; Bye Bye Baby; Bye Bye Baby Blues; Cherry Street Blues; Corpus Blues; Cross The Water Blues; Frost Texas Tornado Blues; Gold Tooth Blues; Hurry Blues; Johnny Behren's Blues; Kentucky Blues; Little Hat Blues; New Two Sixteen Blues; Ninety-Eight Degree Blues; Rolled From Side To Side Blues; Seen Better Days; Two String Blues; Water Bound Blues.

Born on this day – Deborah Coleman:

Deborah Coleman

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018

Albums:

Blues Caravan: Guitars & Feathers (2008); I Can't Lose (1997); Livin’ On Love (2001); Soft Place to Fall (2000); Soul Be It (2002); Stop The Game (2007); Takin' a Stand (1995); The Essential Deborah Coleman (2015); Time Bomb (2007); What About Love? (2004); Where Blue Begins (1998).

Songs:

Another Hoping Fool; Bendin’ Like a Willow Tree; Brick; Can You Hear Me?; Deserted Highway; Don't Lie to Me; Fine & Mellow; Good Understanding; Goodbye Misery; Heaven’s Got the Blues; I Believe; I Can't Lose; If You Love Me Like You Say; I'm a Woman; Lie No Better; Light of Day; Livin’ on Love; Look What You Do to Me; Love Moves Me; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Nobody To Blame; Nothin' to Do With Love; Roll With Me; So Damn Easy; The Day It Comes; The Dream; The Man Is Mine; The River Wild; Torn in Two; Travelin' South; When Will I Be Loved?; You’re With Me.

Documentary:

Blues Divas (2005).

Born on this day – Tom Delaney:

Tom Delaney

Blues singer

Songwriter

Pianist

September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963

Credits:

Songs:

Absent Minded Blues; Alabama Blues; Down on Pennsylvania Avenue; Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die); Follow the Deal on Down; Graveyard Love; I Wanna Jazz Some More; If I Lose, Let Me Lose (Mamma Don't Mind); I'm a Back Bitin' Mama; Jazz It Blues; Jazz Me Blues; Log Cabin Blues; Move It On Out of Here; Never Drive a Beggar from Your Door; Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Mornin'; Police Blues; Sinful Blues; Slow and Steady; Somethin' Goin' On Wrong; Southbound Blues; The Down Home Blues; Troublesome Blues; Walk That Broad; You May Go but You'll Come Back Some Day.

Born on this day – Gus Cannon:

Gus Cannon

Blues singer

Musician

September 12, 1883 – October 15, 1979

Credits:

Songs:

Big Railroad Blues; Boll Weevil; Bring It With You When You Come; Cairo Rag; Crawdad Hole; Feather Bed; Going to Germany; Hollywood Rag; Jazz Gypsy Blues; Jonestown Blues; Last Chance Blues; Madison Street Rag; Minglewood Blues; Mule Get Up in the Alley; Noah's Blues; Old John Booker - You Call That Gone; Pig Ankle Strut; Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home; Pretty Mama Blues; Prison Wall Blues; Riley’s Wagon; Ripley Blues; Springdale Blues; The Rooster's Crowing Blues; Viola Lee Blues; Walk Right In; Wolf River Blues.

Albums:

Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis Vol. 2 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Gus Cannon Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Jug Band Blues Essentials (2010); Last Sessions (2010); Memphis Blues Masters One (2013); Walk Right In (1962).

Movies and television:

All Things Must Pass (2015); Bandstand (1967); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Forrest Gump (1994); Get It Together (1978); Give Me the Banjo (2011); Good Morning Britain (1984); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); My Way (2012); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1992); Sex Education (2019); Someone to Watch Over Me (1987); Soundstage (1979); The Blues (1962); The Danny Kaye Show (1963); The Flamingo Kid (1984).

Born on this day – Barbecue Bob:

Barbecue Bob

Blues singer

Guitarist

September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931

Credits:

Songs:

Bad Times Blues; Barbecue Blues; Black Skunk Blues; Blind Pig Blues; California Blues; Cloudy Sky Blues; Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name; 'Fo Day Creep; Freeze to Me Mama; Going up the Country; Good Time Rounder; Honey Your Going Too Fast; I'm on My Way Down Home; It Just Won't Hay; It's Just Too Bad; Jacksonville Blues; Me and My Whiskey; Mississippi Heavy Water Blues; Motherless Chile Blues; My Mistake Blues; New Mojo Blues; Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home / Poor Boy Long Way From Home; She Moves It Just Right; She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day; Spider and the Fly; Tellin' It to You; Thinkin' Funny Blues; Twistin’ Your Stuff; We Sure Got Hard Times; When the Saints Go Marching In; Yo Yo Blues.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 2 (2010); Atlanta Blues (2021); Atlanta Moan (2019); Barbecue Blues (2007); Barbecue Bob Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 2 (1928 - 1929) (2005); Barbecue Bob Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Blues (2024); Blues Essentials (2011); Chef's Blues (2015); Chocolate To The Bone (1992); New Standards (1992); Presenting Barbecue Bob (1927); Rough Guide To Barbecue Bob (2015); Textures in Hi-Fi with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra (1999); Winter Awhile (2022); Winter Awhile / 2023 Remaster (2023).

Born on this day – Floyd Council:

Floyd Council

Blues singer

Guitarist

Mandolin player

September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976

Albums:

Poor And Ain’t Got A Dime (2008); Runaway Man Blues (2012); Working Man Blues (2008).

Born on this day – Jimmy Rushing:

Jimmy Rushing

Blues singer

Pianist

August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

1944 - 1944 (1986); 1965-70 - The Scene: Live in New York (2009); At Savoy Ballroom 1937–1944 (1972); Benny Goodman, Benny in Brussels (1958);  Bessie - Clara - Mamie & Trixie: The Songs They Made Famous (1961); Big Boy Blues (1964); Buck Clayton, Copenhagen Concert (1979); Cat Meets Chick (1956); Count Basie at Newport (1957); Dave Brubeck, Brubeck and Rushing (1960); Duke Ellington, Jazz Party (1959); Earl Hines, Blues and Things (1968); Every Day I Have the Blues (1967); Five Feet of Soul (1963); Gee Baby Ain't I Been Good to You (1971); Goin' to Chicago (1955); If This Ain't the Blues (1958); Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy & Jimmy (1967); Listen to the Blues with Jimmy Rushing (1956); Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass (1958); Livin' the Blues (1968); Mr. Five By Flve "Live" (1966); Rushing Lullabies (1959); Sings the Blues (1955); The Complete Count Basie, Volumes 1-10 (date?); The Jazz Odyssey of James Rushing Esq. (1957); The Newport Years Volume VI (1973); The Original American Decca Recordings / 3CD box set (1992); The You and Me That Used to Be (1971); VV AA -The Sound Of Jazz (1959); Who Was It Sang That Song? (1967).

Movies and television:

A Great Day in Harlem (1994); Air Mail Special (1941); Baseball (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Choo Choo Swing (1943); Crazy House (1943); Eileen (2023); Ella Fitzgerald: Good Morning Blues / Visualizer (2023); Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams (2020); Fellow Travelers (2023); Kansas City (1996); Omnibus / Segment: 135th Street (1953); Sarah Sings & Basie Swings (1963); Six-Five Special (1957); Take Me Back, Baby (1941); The Blues (2003); The David Frost Show (1970–1972); The Learning Tree (1969); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); The Salton Sea (2002); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Subject Is Jazz (1958); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022); The War (2007); When We First Met (2018).

Born on this day – John Lee Hooker:

John Lee Hooker

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001

Born on this day – Luther Allison:

Luther Allison

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997

Credits:

Albums:

Bad News Is Coming (1972); Blue Streak (1995); Hand Me Down My Moonshine (1994); Here I Come (1985); I Owe It All To You (2024); Learn From The Past (2022); Let's Have A Natural Ball (1985); Let's Try It Again (1992); Life Is a Bitch (1984); Live '89: Let's Try It Again (2006); Live At Montreux 1986 (2006); Live in Chicago (1999); Live in Montreux 1976-1994 (2006); Live in Paris (1979); Love Me Mama (1969); Love Me Papa (1977); Luther Allison Live in Paris 1979 (2005); Luther's Blues (1974); Montreux 1976 (Live) (2017); More From Berlin (1990); My Time Ain't Long (2023); Night Life (1976); Pay It Forward (2002); Power Wire Blues (1979); Reckless (1997); Rich Man (1995); Serious (1987); Songs From The Road (2009); Soul Fixin' Man (1994); South Side Safari (1979); Standing at the Crossroad (1977); Sweet Home Chicago (2006); The Alligator Records Years (2013); The Motown Years 1972-1976 (1996); Time (1989); Underground (2007); When The Sun Goes Down (2024); Where Have You Been? Live In Montreux 1976-1994 (1996).

Movies and television:

Chorus (1978–1980); Cooley High (1975); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1996); Karussell (1985–1987); Lieder & Leute (1982); Little Fires Everywhere (2020); Lord Thing (1970); Mad Money (2008); Magnum P.I. (2020); Musical express (1979); Nobody (2021); Taratata (1997); The Big Easy (1997); The Breed (2006); The Good Life (2014).

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:

Gladys Bentley

Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Credits:

Songs:

Before Midnight; Big Gorilla Man; Boogie Woogie Cue; Boogie'n My Woogie; Find out What He Likes; Fourth of July Boogie; Give It Up; Ground Hog Blues; How Long, How Long Blues; How Much Can I Stand; It Went to the Girl Next Door; Jingle Jangle Jump; June-Teeth Jamboree; Lay it on the Line; Lay It on the Line for Father; Moanful Wailin' Blues; Moanful Walkin' Blues; Red Beans And Rice; Red Beans and Rice Blues; Wild Geese Blues; Worried Blues.

Movies and television:

Before Stonewall (1984); Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024); Shirley (2020); You Bet Your Life (1958).

Born on this day – Robert Shaw:

Robert Shaw

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

August 9, 1908 – May 18, 1985

Born on this day – Willie Lee Brown:

Willie Lee Brown

Blues singer

Guitarist

August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952

Credits:

Albums:

Tell Me Why Love Don't Last / EP (2015); Two Men on Fire - The Blues Brothers of the Delta (2025); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).

Songs:

Cadillac Boogie; Camp Hollers; Cut It Out; Do It Like That; East St. Louis Blues; Fever; Fo' Clock Blues; Four O'clock Flower Blues; Future Blues; Going to Fishing; Gonna Make It On Back; Gonna Make on Back; Government Fleet Blues; Korea Blues; Levee Camp Blues; Love That Stranger; M & O Blues; M and o Blues; Make Me a Pallet on the Floor; Mississippi Blues; Ragged and Dirty; Sleep; So Gorgeous; Take My Love; Talk To Me, Talk To Me; Tell Me Why Love Don't Last Always; Together; Together Intrumental; Walkin' Blues; Walking Blues.

Movie:

Crossroads (1986).

Born on this day – Mike Bloomfield:

Mike Bloomfield

Blues singer

Guitarist

Composer

July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

American Hero (1982); Analine (1977); At The Bottom Line New York, 1975 (Hd Remastered Edition) (2017); Between A Hard Place And The Ground (2011); Between the Hard Place and the Ground (1979); Bloomfield Blues (2009); Bloomfield Harris (1979); Blues at the Fillmore / Electric Blue Live (2011); Blues In B-Flat (2009); Bottom Line New York, 1974 (Hd Remastered Edition) (2017); Chicago Blues Union (2006); Count Talent and the Originals (2006); Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ (1980); Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man! – Essential Blues (1994); Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12/13/68 (2003); Fillmore West 1969 (2023); Great Gifts From Heaven (2010); Greatest Moments - One Night Only (2008); If You Love These Blues, Play ‘Em as You Please (1976); I’m with You Always (2008); Initial Shock (1988); It’s Not Killing Me (1969); Junko Partner (1984); Knockin Myself Out (2006); Late At Night: McCabes, January 1, 1977 (2018); Let It Shine (Record Plant, Sausalito ‘73 KSAN Broadcast Remastered) (2020); Live at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West (1969); Live At Bottom Line Cabaret, 31 March 1974 (2015); Live At McCabe’s Guitar Workshop, January 1, 1977 (2017); Live At The Bottom Line (2022); Live at the Old Waldorf (1998); Live at the Record Plant 1973 (2017); Live from The Palms Cafe - San Francisco 1977 (2023); Live in Italy (1981); Living in the Fast Lane (1980); Michael Bloomfield (1978); Mike Bloomfield & The Electric Flag Getting Down (2021); Red Hot & Blue (1981); San Francisco Nights (2018); Solid Blues (1995); Steelyard Blues (1972); Super Session (1968); The Gospel Truth (2021); The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (1969); The Record Plant ‘73 (2017); Timeless Blues: Mike Bloomfield (2011); Triumvirate (1973); Try It Before You Buy It (1975).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2005); And This Is Free (1965); Bad (1977); Bongo Wolf's Revenge (1970); Born in Chicago (2020); Easy Rider (1969); Festival (1967); Fillmore (1972); Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2017); In Concert (1973); Independent Lens (2014); Medium Cool (1969); Muscle Shoals (2013); Newport and the Great Folk Dream (2025); Rocketman (2019); Sneakers (1992); Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days (1975); Soundstage (1974); Steelyard Blues (1973); Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield (2013); The Blues (2003); The Intimate Rebels (1974); The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival (2007); The Trip (1967); Turn It Up! (2014).

Born on this day – Buster Benton:

Buster Benton

Blues singer

Guitarist

July 19, 1932 – January 20, 1996

Credits:

Albums:

Blues and Trouble (2002); Blues at the Top (1993); Blues Buster (1979); Buster Benton Is the Feeling (1980); First Time in Europe (1983); I Like to Hear My Guitar Sing (1991); Money's the Name of the Game (1989); Spider in My Stew (1978); That's the Reason (1997); Why Me (1988).

Television:

Àngel Casas Show (1985).

Born on this day – Washboard Sam:

Washboard Sam

Blues singer

Musician

July 15, 1910 – November 6, 1966

Credits:

Albums:

Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (1962); Diggin' My Potatoes (2021); Harmonica and Washboard Blues 1937-1940 (Blues for Ever) (2003); Presenting Washboard Sam (1935); The Genius Of (2007); The Very Best Of (2009); Washboard Sam 1935-1947: Swinging the Blues (1999); Washboard Sam Vol. 1 (1935-1936) (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 2 (1937-1938) (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 3 (1938) (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 4 1939-1940 (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 5 1940-1941 (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 6 1941-1942 (2005); Washboard Sam Vol. 7 1942-1949 (2005); Washboard Selection (2020); Washboard Swing (2008).

Born on this day – Willie Dixon:

Willie Dixon

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

Arranger

Producer

July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992

Born on this day – St. Louis Jimmy Oden:

St. Louis Jimmy Oden

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

June 26, 1903 – December 30, 1977

Born on this day – Big Bill Broonzy:

Big Bill Broonzy

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

June 26, 1893 – August 14, 1958

Credits:

Albums:

1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1937, 1938 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1938, 1939 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1939, 1940 (2005); A Retrospective Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Amazing Performance (2013); Amsterdam Concerts 1953 (2006); Barrelhouse of Blues (2015); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Big Bill Broonzy (2011); Big Bill Blues (2014); Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Selected Favorites (2006); Big Bill Broonzy Sings (1956); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues (1957); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 13 (1949-1951) (2013); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 4 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 5 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 6 1937 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 7 1937 – 1938 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy's Pig Meat Blues (2006); Big Bill's Blues (1957); Blues and Gospel No. 3: Big Bill Broonzy (Mono Version) (1962); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); C.C.Rider Meets Lonesome Road Blues (2014); Chicago Blues (2013); Classic Box Set: The Bill Broonzy Story (2015); Hey Hey (2012); I Believe I'll Go Back Home (2014); Introducing Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Just a Dream for Big Bill Broonzy (2009); Key to the Highway (2010); Little Bug (2000); On Tour in Britain, 1952 (2002); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 1 (1993); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 2 (1993); Rockin' In Chicago 1949-53 (2007); St. Louis Blues (2007); Tell Me Baby (2014); The 1955 London Sessions (1990); The Blues Volume 2 (2008); The Hip Star (2014); The Historic Concert Recordings (2013); The Southern Blues (1996); Trouble In Mind - Previously Unissued Live Concert Recordings (1990); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1940 – 1941 (2007); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1945 – 1949 (2007); What a Wonderful Blues World (2013).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); Arena (1985); Big Bill Blues (1957); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Cold Case (2006); Deadwood (2005); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Eric Clapton: One More Car, One More Rider - Live on Tour 2001 (2002); Folk Britannia (2006); Frank's Place (1987); Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019); Holiday (1957); Home Sweet Home (2013); I Go Back Home: Jimmy Scott (2016); I Love You (1986); Intolerable Cruelty (2003); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Love Hurts (2012); Matlock (1992); Mississippi Grind (2015); Panoptikum (1970); Passage to Mars (2016); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Presley (1987); Six-Five Special (1957); Supernatural (2006); The Beatles Anthology (1995–1996); The Big Something (2011); The Blues (2003); The Buttercup Project (2010); The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger's Glory Years (2011); The Terminal (2004); Toxic Apocalypse (2016); Traveller (1997); Unplugged (1992).

Born on this day – Skip James:

Skip James

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

Songwriter

June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969

Credits:

Music:

Songs:

22-20 Blues; Be Ready When He Comes; Cherry Ball Blues; Cypress Grove Blues; Devil Got My Woman; Drunken Spree; Four O'Clock Blues; Hard Luck Child; Hard Time Killing Floor Blues; How Long 'Buck; If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road; Illinois Blues; I'm So Glad; Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader; Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues; Special Rider Blues; What Am I to Do; Yola My Blues Away.

Albums:

Blues from the Delta (1998); Cypress Grove Blues (2004); Devil Got My Woman (1968); Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers (1964); Hard Time (2003); Hard Time Killin' Floor (2005); Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (2003); Heroes of the Blues: The Very Best of Skip James (2003); I'm So Glad (1978); ive: Boston, 1964 & Philadelphia, 1966 (1994); She Lyin' (1964 / 1996); Skip's Guitar Blues (1999); Skip's Piano Blues, 1964 (1998); Studio Sessions: Rare and Unreleased, 1967 (2003); The Complete Bloomington, Indiana Concert, March 30, 1968 (1999); The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James – 1930 (1994); Today! (1966).

Movies and television:

Babo 73 (1968); Burlesque (2010); Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History (1996); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Devil's Knot (2013); Die Föhnforscher (1985); Down from the Mountain (2000); Ghost World (2001); Great Performances (2005); Her (2013); James Sonny Ford James, Delta Artist (1969); Mad Dogs (2016); Morgan (2016); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); Omnibus (1968); Rage (2012); Reacher (2023); Rock Concert (1974); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues (2003); The Soul of a Man (2003); Two Trains Runnin' (2016).